Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.